Taos

FRAGRANCE NOTES:   Sage and Pinon INSPIRATIONBefore there was an entire New Mexico Collection of candles, there was Taos.  My mother had passed away and I created the Taos candle to honor her.  I called my cousin, Victoria who grew up in Taos to ask her what the fragrance should be, and she said, “it must be a Sage candle,” so I created a fragrance blend of sage and piñon firewood.   It seems only appropriate that in March, Women’s History Month, Taos will always be the Candle of the Month to honor not only my mom, my tias, and my beloved grandmother Rose. My mother was a 12th-generation New Mexican from Taos, my family settled in the area in the early 1600s. Every summer we drove to Taos to stay with Tia Pearl and visit our Tia Margaret, and then to Pilar to Tia Reggie’s, whose house was along the Rio Grande. One of my favorite memories was when I was 10 and my Tia Pearl somehow convinced my parents to let me stay with her for the entire summer. I remember skipping in the plaza, l